Umang Kalra

Systems · Product · Spatial intelligence

Hello — I'mUmang
Kalra
Calminfrastructureforcomplexhumanproblems.

Designing calm, intelligent systems where people, data, and operations meet.

Portrait of Umang Kalra
  • 4+

    years as tech lead & PM

  • 20+

    initiatives shipped

  • 5

    collaboration across regions

Product lanes where I've owned discovery through launch—climate to APIs.

Climate

Nature tech, land use & supply‑chain compliance

PropTech

Location intelligence & preference‑driven search

Commerce

Data marketplaces, AOI pricing & self‑serve exports

APIs

Developer platforms, spatial pipelines & integrations

Collaborators

Teams I've shipped with

From climate hardware to spatial platforms — calm delivery across org sizes.

N5 Sensors logo
UNMAPT logo
Oxford Scientia logo
Urban Water logo
Inovasi Digital logo
Atlas Reality logo
Chartr logo
N5 Sensors logo
UNMAPT logo
Oxford Scientia logo
Urban Water logo
Inovasi Digital logo
Atlas Reality logo
Chartr logo

How I work

A few lenses — not a laundry list.

If we work together, this is the shorthand for how I show up: sensemaking, systems, and calm execution.

How I think

Incentives and feedback loops first — what the system rewards, punishes, and hides — before interfaces or roadmaps.

Human systems

Behavior is data with dignity: cognitive load, trust repair, and the quiet moments where products win or fail.

Research → outcomes

Field truth, telemetry, and narrative compressed into falsifiable claims — then wired into how teams operate.

Operational intelligence

North stars with counter-metrics and healthy escalation — so velocity compounds without burning people out.

Global collaboration

Places I've built and learned with teams.

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Featured work

Recent projects.

Previews and a headline number on each card — the rest is one click away.

Representative GIS workspace: estate panel and satellite map with overlays (client UI anonymized).

200+ daily active users

Enterprise supplier compliance & deforestation monitoring

Owned backend architecture and product delivery for a confidential GIS SaaS used by global FMCGs and large agri‑supply partners — 24M+ ha on the map, 200+ daily active users, and roughly 60% faster reporting cycles vs. manual bi‑weekly runs.

DjangoPostGISReactAWSMaps

DAU

200+

Reporting cycle

~60% faster

Cloud cost

~20% lower

Monitored scope

24M+ ha

Outcomes

200+ daily actives, ~60% faster reporting and data handoffs, ~20% lower recurring cloud spend after architecture hardening — one trusted surface for compliance, not competing spreadsheets.

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Ranked neighborhood results with interactive map — representative PropTech UI.

58,000+ neighborhoods · sub‑second ranking

Neighborhood intelligence & preference‑driven home search

Led product and engineering for a PropTech SaaS that ranks 58,000+ UK neighborhoods in sub‑second time against weighted lifestyle signals — 1,000+ signups in month one, 900,000+ sales records in the scoring layer, and 80% of new users completing a search in their first session.

DjangoPostGISReactNext.jsAWS

Launch window

1,000+ users

Index size

58,000+

Sales records

900,000+

Search latency

<1s

Outcomes

Scaled acquisition (1,000+ users in 30 days), hardened search to sub‑second responses at full index size, held 99.5% uptime post‑launch, and shipped pass‑based monetization with automated reporting — a credible story for PM and tech‑lead interviews.

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Map-first AOI selection with cadastral overlays — representative marketplace UI.

10,000+ users · 100+ exports/day

National geospatial data marketplace & self‑serve exports

Shipped a country‑scale SaaS where planners and GIS teams buy clipped, standardized layers from one catalog — 10,000+ registered users, 100+ automated export jobs per day, and roughly 70% faster data prep vs. manual hunting across government portals.

FlaskPostGISReactAWSMaps

Registered users

10,000+

Daily exports

100+

Prep time

~70% faster

Repeat usage

90%+

Outcomes

High repeat engagement (90%+ among active buyers), thousands of secure checkouts through a regional payment stack, and a durable pipeline from map AOI → priced clip → SHP/DXF delivery with email receipts and re‑downloadable history.

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Time‑series gas probability traces with detection thresholds — representative monitoring output (anonymized).

~90% smaller models · ~3.5× faster inference

Edge environmental & fire intelligence — ML optimization and Earth‑observation validation

Partnered with a deep‑tech hardware startup to harden a proprietary badge‑class edge AI stack for real‑time environmental and fire‑risk signals: structured pruning and INT8 / INT4 quantization for on‑chip inference, sensor stabilization under temperature and humidity drift, manufacturing‑neutral baselines, gradient‑based input reduction, and VIIRS / GOES‑16 fusion with NASA FIRMS for high‑confidence event validation — roughly 90% smaller models with about 3.5× inference speedup while tightening operational trust for field teams and exec reviewers.

PyTorchStructured pruningINT8 / INT4NASA FIRMSGOES‑16 ABIVIIRSQGIS

Model compression

~90%

Inference speedup

~3.5×

Quantization

INT8 / INT4

EO products

VIIRS + GOES‑16

Outcomes

~90% model compression with ~3.5× faster on‑device inference, materially lower memory and I/O after quantization, measurably calmer sensor traces across devices and weather swings, and a defensible satellite cross‑check story for PMs and tech leads hiring into safety, climate, or edge ML.

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Testimonials

What collaborators say.

Delivered high-quality work with great communication and strong expertise. Very attentive to detail and quick to understand the project needs. Would definitely recommend and look forward to working together again!

Fazly Noor

Marketing Manager, Inovasi Digital

Working with Umang and his team has been an excellent experience. They successfully developed a robust web platform for serving PDFs, including an intuitive dashboard for efficient data updates. The project met all technical specifications and quality expectations. Communication was smooth and professional throughout, making collaboration straightforward and productive. I highly recommend them for their technical expertise and reliability, and look forward to working together again.

Scott Urban

Co-Founder, Oxford Scientia

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Let's talk about your next system.

Product, GIS, customer experience, or operational design — bring the messy reality; I'll bring structure and calm velocity.